[arch-general] PA over JACK: excessive work?

2020-12-09 Thread riveravaldez via arch-general
Hi, I'm using PulseAudio over JACK and noticed in htop that while not doing nothing PA works much more than when idle alone, is this normal/right? This is what I do: Close everything that uses audio. Start JACK through qjackctl. $ pulseaudio --kill $ pulseaudio --start (So, PA now works as some ki

Re: [arch-general] Firefox slowness

2020-11-12 Thread riveravaldez via arch-general
On 11/12/20, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > Perhaps this is just me, but it feels like Firefox has gotten super slow > / hogging lots of CPU recently. Anyone else seeing this? And/or know > what might be causing it? (Some recent upgrade to the package perhaps?) Just in case, if you're using the S

Re: [arch-general] Arch should be apolitical

2020-06-01 Thread riveravaldez via arch-general
Equality and freedom of genre/sex decisions is not politics, it's just basic human rights. Or, it is politics, and then everything is politics. Also, to look in other direction and ignore social issues is also a political stance, and the free software is extremely sociopolitical... Anyway. Polit

Re: [arch-general] Doubts with 'apulse'

2020-04-09 Thread riveravaldez via arch-general
On 4/7/20, Javier via arch-general wrote: > Why do you need apulse to get firefox using alsa as backend? Perhaps you > can take a look at [3] > > -- > Javier > > [3] > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox/Tweaks#Get_ALSA_working_back I tested that, but, sadly, it doesn't work. With that

[arch-general] Doubts with 'apulse'

2020-04-06 Thread riveravaldez via arch-general
Hi, if this queries must go to some other specific places (forums, AUR, etc.) please let me know so I move them there. 1. According to the instructions in [1] «it is necessary to exclude /dev/snd/ from Firefox' sandboxing by adding it to the comma-separated list in about:config → security.sandbox.

Re: [arch-general] Firefox "stalling" behaviour

2019-12-09 Thread riveravaldez via arch-general
On 12/9/19, Miguel Aguiar wrote: >>I'm seeing a strange behavior where it "stalls" intermittently. The >>rendering engine seems to randomly pause activity (i.e. not responsive to >>scrolling input), and these pauses can last for several seconds. It also >>appears to affect video playback. Are you

Re: [arch-general] Extreme Minimalist Challenge

2019-11-17 Thread riveravaldez via arch-general
On 11/17/19, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > On 11/17/19 6:01 PM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: >> The project is basically to have the absolutely smallest possible Linux >> distro (x86_64 based) that would be a type of LiveCD RAM-Based bootable >> system that has an Xserver and VirtualBox 6.0 b

Re: [arch-general] 'base' package install with non-updated linux-kernel

2019-10-23 Thread riveravaldez via arch-general
On 10/19/19, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > If your kernel issue was making you not do any updates at all, this > seems... suboptimal as you then get no updates at all. The kernel is the > one package it is completely okay to not upgrade with the rest of your > system, since it doesn't exa

[arch-general] 'base' package install with non-updated linux-kernel

2019-10-19 Thread riveravaldez via arch-general
Hi, because of this problem [1] (apparently a kernel/driver/hardware issue?) I'm forced to stay on linux-5.2.14-arch2-1 right now. My question is: should/can I anyway install the 'base' package anyway as explained in [2]? Thanks a lot [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=249330 [2] ht

Re: [arch-general] [SOLVED] Different outputs for 'groups' and 'groups user'

2019-06-27 Thread riveravaldez via arch-general
On 6/26/19, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:00:53 -0300, riveravaldez via arch-general wrote: >>[user@arch ~]$ whoami >>user >>[user@arch ~]$ groups >>sys lp wheel ftp uucp log rfkill http games audio users user >>[user@arch ~]$ gr

[arch-general] Different outputs for 'groups' and 'groups user'

2019-06-26 Thread riveravaldez via arch-general
Hi, not sure if this is the right place to ask this, let me know if it's not. Maybe this is normal, but couldn't clarify it by reading the Arch Wiki [1]: [user@arch ~]$ whoami user [user@arch ~]$ groups sys lp wheel ftp uucp log rfkill http games audio users user [user@arch ~]$ groups user sys lp

Re: [arch-general] Keyboard issue with kernel 4.15.5 (possible Arch issue?)

2018-03-14 Thread rv riveravaldez via arch-general
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 4:25 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 06:48:04 +, Carsten Mattner wrote: >>Is it still native when connected with a USB-to-PS/2 adapter? > > I don't know, I even don't know what is true and what are untrue myths > about PS/2 vs USB keyboards. However, since